I would have thought the reason was obvious, stability. A manager who has been there for years doing it his way. He gets away with spending less than the others at the minute because they haven't changed the manager every other season and wasting cash on a new managers team. It's the only reason Everton have survived the last 10 years as well.
The Russian does Manu favours. Had he kept Mourinho happy I doubt Manu would have won another title since the last one mourinho won. Instead they spend money on a new managers team and then the next and the next. None of which where as effective as his.
Complete tosh, the team were becoming very poor at the beginning of the season, this is Mourinho's MO, jump before the club become a turgid pile of crap. HE got fired for a reason, and that was boring football, Inter got bored of him and he's been forced to change his style at Real completely to keep his job, top clubs don't want ultra defensive football.
Utd were simply better and improved a lot, don't forget that Utd had Ronaldo have 2 insanely good seasons, theres only so much other clubs can do. Oh, and Ronaldo wasn't on crazy money, because Utd got him "cheap" and sold him for a huge profit and let another club foot the 250+k a week bill. You don't have to pay players 250k a week to win titles, Utd won titles by having players and selling a lot on for a profit before they want insane cash(except Rooney).
Think about this, if you got rid of Denilson, on 40k a week, who has barely played for 2 seasons, you could give RVP 140k a week, and not even have a difference in the wage bill. Eboue on 50-60k a week, started about 4 league games last year, thats cesc on 160k a week, again with no change to the budget.
No he's been over performing with the materials at his disposal. On one hand you praise Dein for his transfer dealings then on the other you now blame Wenger for not giving new signings/targets enough to get them there.
He just gives the the money men his targets and it's not his fault they offer what some regard derisory offers and not enough wages to stop them going to city.
It is a knee jerk reaction, some of you have changed your tune on this because of the drubbing you got at the hands of Manu. I remember when Manu fans wanted Fergie out because he had no plan B (you are all fond of saying) when they repeatedly played conservatively away from home in europe. He was apparently past it as well when Chelsea won the title 2 years running.
A manager with no plan B doesn't get as far as he has with the players he's had for the last 6 years.
Complete horsecrap, again, we have a 110mil wage bill thats ever increasing, Arsenal have done exactly what they should have, no more and no less, every year, except our football has been getting worse every year, every year our wage bill has increased and every year our squad has gotten worse for 6 years. Small budget, rubbish, look at City's spending on transfers vs wages in 10 years, their wages will DWARF their spending, look at Chelsea, wages WAY past their transfer spending now, Utd, wages vs spending on transfer, its all wages. Arsenal, its all wages. HALF A BILLION alone in the past failing 5 years, don't think Arsenal don't spend and are doing an epic job to compete, it makes you look ignorant.
Arsenal spend HUGE, and a HUGE turnover, have had a very good profit for years, have had money to spend for years, and have actively sold great player and bought significantly less good players in replacement, and stuck them on the same wages.
You've highlighted and talked about his failure....... he just identifies targets and leaves it to the money men? if it fails constantly over 6 years..... is it not the managers job to talk to the board, who he has full access to and a huge amount of clout with, and have them sort out the person who sorts out transfers? Can he not get involved himself and get it done faster? I like how you just transfer all blame away from him to someone else. Thats not how life works, if something isn't working and Wenger just ignores it for 6 years, thats still his fault. as for just leaving it to the money men and identifying targets, look who he has brought in, he's giving the money men the WRONG TARGETS constantly for 6-7 years now, again Wenger's fault.
Knee jerk reaction, because of one loss, you'd have a leg to stand on if no one had called for his head till today......... you KNOW that isn't the case in any way at all. Wenger has been making the SAME mistakes for over half a decade, sensible people have seen how bad this is for years and have wanted change for more than a few years.
For the record people are talking about the QUALITY of signing, not the abilty to get it done. We've made few top draw signings without Dein, which suggests to a lot of people that their may have been a good strong voice telling Wenger when he's getting it completely wrong.
Gilberto, to Song. Pires, to Hleb, to Theo. Lauren/Dixon to Sagna. Cesc to Ramsey, Henry to Chamakh, Ashley Cole/Silvinho/Clichy to Gibbs and Traore. Gallas to Djourou, the list goes on and on. The squad now, at full strength and injury free would get absolutely demolished by the old Arsenal side.
